SecurePasswordGenerator

Good password hygiene

Don’t be a statistic! Secure passwords are your first defense when safeguarding against threats online.

• Don’t use personal info in your passwords, like your dog’s birthday. Duh.
• Don’t share credentials over email or text message. They’re completely wide-open to interception by 3rd parties.
• Use a different password for every account. If a baddie hacks that meme generator site you used once 8 months ago and you re-use the same password on all your accounts, you may be up the creek. And now you have to change the password on all 308 of your other accounts. (That sucks.) Yes, a unique password for every account is pretty much impossible with out a password manager...
• Use a password manager. You have plenty of options, many of which include a free tier. Get one with a mobile app that syncs between all your devices, that way you’ll always have your passwords on you. Use a long but easy to remember "master" passphrase like craig-accuracy-czech-shall-venice to secure your password vault, and long random passwords for individual accounts. Thankfully, browsers and operating systems now almost all have basic password management built it. And with the rise of biometric access controls (Face ID, et al) there’s really no excuse not to use long complex passwords everywhere.
• Answer security questions with random passwords or passphrases and store them in your password manager too. Some of this information, like your mother’s maiden name, is bound to be already be floating around out there. Most managers now include this functionality.
• Change your “master” password periodically. It only takes a few minutes to permanently memorize a 5-word passphrase.